What if WCW won the war??? How would wrestling be today IYO?

[PullMyFinger]

I always thought of this. What would happen to wrestling? Would it be any different?

For some reason, sometimes I think if they did win, WCW would then flounder and die like it died in 2001. We'd prob be left starting all over again with a new wrestling company. I don't know...or maybe it'd be the same shit as WWE today...still alive but producing shite quality.

[BobBitchen]

I agree with you

[dablackguy]

Old over the hill wrestlers dominating the sport :(

[Xero]

Well, if they never started to dip into the shithole in 99 or so they probably would still be alive today. WWE wouldn't be dead unless they did exactly what WCW did. (Basically they're doing it right now, the only difference is that there's no real competition.)

The war, if WCW had not dove so far down, probably would have continued until maybe 2007 or 2008 when McMahon probably would have gone broke. After all, as rich as Vince is, he's no Ted Turner.

[Joey Slugs]

Forget if WCW won the war or not, the question should be what would of happened if Bischoff bought WCW instead of WWF.

[Savio]

WCW did start to turn around at the end.

[Pepsi Man]

Well, if they never started to dip into the shithole in 99 or so they probably would still be alive today. WWE wouldn't be dead unless they did exactly what WCW did. (Basically they're doing it right now, the only difference is that there's no real competition.)

The war, if WCW had not dove so far down, probably would have continued until maybe 2007 or 2008 when McMahon probably would have gone broke. After all, as rich as Vince is, he's no Ted Turner.
I think that's a ridiculous assessment, as the WWF was continuing to grow and showed no signs of losing money on a consistant basis. Frankly, I don't think the WWF(E now) would've been any closer to being out of business if WCW were still around than they are now.

I mean, if McMahon were on the way to going "broke", how did he have the money (as little as it was) to buy WCW in the first place?

[Xero]

I think that's a ridiculous assessment, as the WWF was continuing to grow and showed no signs of losing money on a consistant basis. Frankly, I don't think the WWF(E now) would've been any closer to being out of business if WCW were still around than they are now.

I mean, if McMahon were on the way to going "broke", how did he have the money (as little as it was) to buy WCW in the first place?
I'm saying that assuming that WCW stayed on top of the WWF for a long while. It's been said that the WWF were extremely close to going out of buisiness until the Attitude era because of WCW.

Even with the attitude era, there was still a chance that there would be another reversal (in WCW's favor) once it died down. Of course no one can say yes or no for sure now, but if WCW had started to book right again and got on top, there's that chance that Vince could have been gone.

[Sting Fan]

It's impossble to say, for all we know they could have tooled someone, anyone for that matter up with the right gimmick and created the next Stone Cold and destroyed the WWF in three years or less.

Nothing is impossible and speculating does no one any good as there are to many possiblities to count. I mean come on who here saw Bradshaw winning the World Title, Keeping it nigh on a year and some of us god forbid liking it.

[mrslackalack]

Schavoine: This is the greatest Nitro in the history of our sport

(the next week)

Schavoine: This is the greatest Nitro in the history of our sport

Schavoine: OH MY WHAT A GREAT MATCHUP JERICHO VS BENOIT THESE TWO HAVE NEVER WRESTLED EACH OTHER BEFORE THIS IS A FIRST!

[Pepsi Man]

Schavoine: This is the greatest Nitro in the history of our sport

(the next week)

Schavoine: This is the greatest Nitro in the history of our sport

Schavoine: OH MY WHAT A GREAT MATCHUP JERICHO VS BENOIT THESE TWO HAVE NEVER WRESTLED EACH OTHER BEFORE THIS IS A FIRST!
Really makes me appreciate JR's "Bah gawd! BBQ sauce!", Jonathan Coachman's nonsense, and Michael Cole and Tazz's "Not for nothin'."

[loopydate]

Probably still milking the nWo with incarnation number 65.

nWo Off-White
Hogan, Rock, The Giant, Angle, Foley, DDP, Undertaker

nWo Gray
Nash, Austin, Goldberg, S. Steiner, Hall, Triple H, Michaels

But at least the cruiserweight division would be better.

[Favre4Ever]

Nash would be Triple H......

[Skippord]

Which one would be more awesome off white or gray

[Dave Youell]

IMHO I don't think Vince would ever of given up, even if he had to resort to only running a small arena taping 4 shows in one night and only being showing on public broadcast, he'd still do it.

The reason WCW folded was because it's financial backers pulled the plug, WWE had no outside financial backing as it was all Vince, so there was no one else but him to call it a day

[FourFifty]

We'd be asking the same damn question, complaining about how Triple H didn't get signed on and pissing and moaning about how Eric holds people down.

post number 1983- the year I was born, bitches

[Indifferent Clox]

we wouldn't be in Iraq, that's for damn sure!

[mrslackalack]

IMHO I don't think Vince would ever of given up, even if he had to resort to only running a small arena taping 4 shows in one night and only being showing on public broadcast, he'd still do it.


I read in a book that in late 96 someone just mentioned him to sell WWF to Turner and he fired them.